Pre-Christmas struggles are OK: https://rosswintle.uk/2017/12/pre-christmas-struggles-are-ok/
Wrote that this morning. Am a bit more on top of things now and the world is finally winding down to a proper holiday. But if you’re overwhelmed by it all, you’re not alone.
Weird but good side-effect of deleting the iOS Facebook app in response to this week’s Laracasts Snippet podcast: vastly improved battery life on my phone!
Here is the challenge of sustainability.
“Love Food – Hate Waste”
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“Film – Plastic – Not currently recycled”
A single campaign in isolation is not enough. We need to understand the tradeoffs.
Today I shall mostly be sat at home, eliminating bugs.
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Confession of unpopular opinion:
There are many things worse than Jar Jar Binks in Episodes 1 and 2.
The problem with having a kid who’s a) really small for his age and b) really good at cycling is that you go:
Balance bike -> 12″ -> 16″ -> 20″
Not:
Balance bike -> 14″ -> 20″
This is a delightful, if expensive, problem to have!
How come I’ve not come across git-ftp before? That’s a much neater solution for old-school (S)FTP deployment where it’s needed. https://github.com/git-ftp/git-ftp
Survived cycle-assassination attempt this morning. Notes to driver:
1) NO, it is NOT acceptable to overtake cyclists on roundabouts
2) You MUST be prepared to stop at a roundabout, look right, and give way
Ah yes. It’s that time of year again. Mailinglist-unsubscribe Friday approaches. ?
“a next generation crypto-currency and decentralized application platform, written entirely in JavaScript” – ???
Anyone else think this is like using a blunt pencil to do brain surgery?
And yes, we totally take the internet for granted. With any other family IT query I’d be sending pictures, or screen-sharing or getting him to allow remote access to help him out. Without internet I was working blind and that was what made it so hard.
Paper-clip-reset incident update: I managed to, over the phone, with no visual on what was going on, use a PDF of a 10-year old NetGear router manual to help my father-in-law piece together enough information to get back online. Man that was hard work!
Actually, I remember now. BT asked my father in law to factory reset a router that *I* provided him to replace a single-port, WiFi-less USB modem years ago. Resetting would delete the ADSL connection settings anyway. So unhelpful.
The BT customer support person that told my father in law to stick a paper clip in the back of his router needs a really good talking to!
Love this. A real SpaceX rocket scientist is Kickstarting a book for 6-10 year olds about Rocket Science. Theres a few Christmas presents sorted! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1734237858/rocket-science
I love this. I never gave up on RSS. It’s still simple, elegant, useful. “The case for RSS”: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2017/11/the-case-for-rss
This is pretty embryonic, and I’m not really an open-source project kind of person, so it’s rough around the edges, but here’s oiko_s – a WordPress starter theme derived from _s with SASS, Webpack, Babel and LiveReload. https://github.com/rosswintle/oiko_s
Hosting experiments: I thought this new hosting I was trying out was fast. And it’s good. But it’s not as good as ServerPilot on a cheap DigitalOcean box. Spot when the move happened!
Nearly-6-year-old son to nearly-two-year-old daughter, while Star Wars music plays:
“Ada, this is not the Lego you are looking for!”
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Trying out the micro.blog Mac App. Hmm…